El Salvador football team bewildered after wrong national anthem plays at international game

The El Salvador football team were left bewildered when a British territory’s national anthem was mistakenly played before a game against Argentina in the US.

Lined up with their left arms symbolically placed on their chests, a tide of confusion rippled across the patriotic team as the event organisers incorrectly blared the Isle of Man’s national anthem, called the Manx, instead of the correct song, titled ‘Himno Nacional de El Salvador’.

Players shuffled uncomfortably and slowly dropped their poses in confusion at the foreign music as they stood on the field at the Fed Ex Field stadium, the home of the NFL team the Washington Redskins.

El Salvador is situated between Honduras and Guatemala in Central America – a significant distance from the Isle of Man, a small British island nestled between England and Ireland.

To make matters worse, last year’s World Cup runners-up, Argentina, won the game 2-0.